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Survey of Income and Education, 1976: Hispanic Extract (ICPSR 7916)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection contains information from the SURVEY
OF INCOME AND EDUCATION, 1976 (ICPSR 7634), conducted during the
months of April through July of 1976 by the Bureau of the Census for
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The survey served as
a supplement to the yearly Current Population Survey and was conducted
to obtain reliable state-by-state data on the numbers of children in
local areas with family incomes below the federal poverty level. The
information was used to facilitate Title 1 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act by the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. The survey includes questions used in the Current Population
Survey and also contains additional exclusive questions covering
school enrollment, disability, health insurance, bilingualism, food
stamp recipiency, assets, and housing costs. This extract was made
from the SURVEY OF INCOME AND EDUCATION, 1976: RECTANGULAR FILE (ICPSR
7919) and includes only those persons who specified their ethnicity as
either Mexican American, Chicano, Mexican, Mexicano, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish. Those who said
they were born in Puerto Rico, Cuba, or Mexico were also included. The
collection was provided to ICPSR by the National Chicano Research
Network which was located at the Survey Research Center of the
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

This data collection contains information from the SURVEY
OF INCOME AND EDUCATION, 1976 (ICPSR 7634), conducted during the
months of April through July of 1976 by the Bureau of the Census for
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The survey served as
a supplement to the yearly Current Population Survey and was conducted
to obtain reliable state-by-state data on the numbers of children in
local areas with family incomes below the federal poverty level. The
information was used to facilitate Title 1 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act by the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. The survey includes questions used in the Current Population
Survey and also contains additional exclusive questions covering
school enrollment, disability, health insurance, bilingualism, food
stamp recipiency, assets, and housing costs. This extract was made
from the SURVEY OF INCOME AND EDUCATION, 1976: RECTANGULAR FILE (ICPSR
7919) and includes only those persons who specified their ethnicity as
either Mexican American, Chicano, Mexican, Mexicano, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish. Those who said
they were born in Puerto Rico, Cuba, or Mexico were also included. The
collection was provided to ICPSR by the National Chicano Research
Network which was located at the Survey Research Center of the
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Access Notes

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Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Survey of Income and Education, 1976: Hispanic Extract. ICPSR07916-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07916.v1

Universe:
All occupied housing units, most vacant units, and group
quarters such as rooming houses, communes, military installations,
religious group quarters, college dormitories, and agricultural workers'
quarters.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
The sample consisted of 51 state samples in almost 1,000
sampling areas.